Dan Lyke (he/him)

I have yet to read this article, but hearing Joel Salatin be anti-vaccine, seeing vans driven 200 miles to our "local" farmer's market, and having our CSA say "oh, yeah, those are from 'partner farms'" when we observed that they were delivering produce they didn't grow made me very skeptical.

I think the local Blue Zones staff have done some things to improve quality of life in Petaluma, I wish the Healthcare District had thrown those dollars at local orgs that don't have some international org based on hogwash taking a cut, and are focused more on evidence-based improvements.

A podcast like Switched on Pop, but where I learn about artists like Sarah and the Safeword.

If you need an algorithm to tell you your kid likes animals have you considered feeling immense shame

*puts on pedantic hat* California High-Speed Rail review period was about 18 years and now that the reviews are complete, now the barrier to building is PG&E lollygagging instead of moving its stuff out of the way like they were paid to do Sign the petition! actionnetwork.org/petitions/bu...

seems like "on the orders of a nazi every major news outlet on the planet hounded an innocent man to death because he's black" should be one of the biggest stories of the year

wear a tail and ears to vote.

1. Original D&D 2. Top Secret. So much Top Secret. (My Dad, who had been in that business, for what little he could talk about it, was super amused by it...) 3. Gamma World 4. AD&D 5. Traveler

After a while exploring iTerm2 and Ghostty, I wondered what I was actually getting from them, and reverted to Terminal. Then I tried to paste some Unicode. Great, another Mac place where we use TextEdit to workaround... Sigh.

I knew this was a bad idea. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Most of this fat yellow wedge of 19 million people are not terminally online pro Palestinian leftists. They're average people who've been struggling for the last decade, left behind by two blue presidents' economic recoveries, disgusted with being gaslit by their own party that EVERYTHING'S GREAT!

"Volume is not value. AI is creating a reckoning for organizations that lack fundamental disciplines, such as defining use-case value ahead of time and establishing criteria for when to walk away." "When to walk away" has entered the building. Alicia Mullery, VP Analyst at Gartner

lol the only bike race I know by name aside from the Tour de France is RAGBRAI, which is in….Iowa.

Similarly, women are better at detail oriented tasks like graduating from college or being doctors, but edpol forces them to date educated men. For this reason, colleges should offer useless male-coded vanity degrees, like math or CS, to create eligible bachelors to be future stay at home chefs.

Thinking about The New Republic article saying that 73% of these donation dollars go to consultants and vendors. Also pondering that they have Charlene's name associated with my number.

found out that my mother in law decided she was aggressively pro trans rights literally by going, I don't know anything about this but everyone who is against trans rights is also against free school lunch, the issue I know and care a lot about, so this must be the correct way to feel about this

Everyone that works for a Silicon Valley company should have to read Jessamyn’s field reports of people trying to use their devices, then think about their own product quality, then make appropriate changes.

Wow! Make Amy Acton governor. “I am making a promise to Ohioans...that no one in my state will ever, ever be invisible to me."

I have been ranting about this to anyone who will listen. It's not just that younger donors are turned off, it's that they're far more likely to understand how DEEPLY stupid it is to click a link in an unsolicited text and then enter credit card information on the linked page.

Intermittent rewards work. Last Saturday we went to a gem and mineral show and bought a couple of raffle tickets. Charlene won way more than we spent in tickets. I suspect we'll be joining the local rock hound organization soon...

Missed the peak of the sunset trying to find a better foreground. Still got the Dollar Tree.

After reviewing evidence, Woodland Police Department determined that an ICE agent’s SUV did strike U.S. Citizen Antonio Moreida in Woodland on Tuesday, and Antonio did not jump onto the hood like ICE alleged.

Oh we’re still using weed laws to harass Black people? In twenty fucking twenty six?

Since the famous Painted Ladies houses are in this graphic, here are the property tax bills for them *and* the 36 unit apartment building next to them in San Francisco. If the numbers look crazy ass, welcome to wonderful world of California Prop 13 (1978)!

why do people call LLM training on public website data “AI Copyright Infringement” when “six finger discount” is right there

I'm out here sweating in the theory mines, discussing gender and race and tech, and these chucklefucks just tweet it out.

Nathan Spindel has a Petaluma voter guide. I disagree with him on a couple of points (I'm a Jackie Elward fan), but it's a worthwhile read. raisingpetaluma.com

Because I'm listening through "vocalese" tracks to find things to practice with, and because it's so appropriate to today: "Four", music by Miles Davis, lyrics by Jon Hendricks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk1c...

Also hat tip to Jess Lawrence and a few others on Threads who saw the ad and posted about it www.threads.com/@jess_lawren...

Props to the ad agency: they nailed the "white person who plagiarises and steals credit using LLMs" look with 100% accuracy

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Was feeling all cocky about Flutterby being written in Perl, then realized that I've exposed .php endpoints to serve gzip bombs if people try to access them. I don't *think* I was vulnerable, but the OOM handling thing makes me wonder...

After seeing the Musk documentary, Charlene forwarded me this interview with Ashley St. James, and I'm appreciating her introspection and attempts to make amends for her previous career. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG-p...

Thought: computer games are interfaces that make it deliberately difficult to achieve your goals. If software is developed by people who enjoy computer games, that explains a lot about modern user interfaces. And libraries. And package managers.

I listened to this, and went out searching to see if there was a Modern Western Square Dance singing call arrangement of it. There is not.

/me raises hand. I mean, I'm not *not* voting for a Dem, but I sure am donating to issues over candidates, and directly to specific campaigns. Also: texting, at most, raises turnout ¼%. There's no evidence that turnout is for the candidate behind the effort. doi.org/10.1007/s111...

49? Shit, ship a new model.

Why we need better addressing than domain names, and some sort of distributed store, so that we don't lose the connections just because someone's domain name or server disappears.

We need to get out ahead of the situation, rhetorically.